Study asserts companies shop for internal control audit opinions
Audit opinion shopping—a not-uncommon practice believed to have been cut down in the post-Sarbanes-Oxley era—remains live and well in capital markets, and it’s most pervasive in the presence of competition among auditors, according to research from the American Accounting Association. More from Tammy Whitehouse.
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